I'm not surprised... the only thing that surprises me is that people keep thinking he is a strong candidate... he really isn't.

...he probably still thinks gas is 56 cents a gallon and the 5 and dime stores are still flourishing selling penny candy...

wingers because if they admitted that Americans are losing their jobs for any other reason than THEIR OWN FAULT, then it would demand some kind of ACTION. And of course, that would be against their whole philosophy. Its not going to happen.

This kind of repeated insistence that a is really b despite all evidence to the contrary is part of a set of behaviors called "milieu control" and they are basically a form of cult behavior.

Rationalizing away preventable tragedy is a classic form of it.

Its like the British preachers who said that the Irish Potato Famine was God's justice, or Darwinistic justice (pick your poison) the right in America today MUST believe that rich people are rich because they are better, (not because they were lucky to be born with advantages) and that poor people are poor not because of bad schools or growing up in violence, or a lifetime of extreme life-threatening stress, or lack of access to even the most basic educational resources or healthcare, no, poor people are poor BECAUSE THEY ARE FLAWED. Therefore, its pointless to try to help them. In fact, all aid for poor people is wrong.

See what I am getting at?

Thinking that poor people should be helped is the first step to damnation to many right wing people.

If they started thinking about those things then God knows what would happen.. the battle would be LOST for them. They would be ostracized by their friends and colleagues. Driven away.

Sound a little bit nuts? It is - but if you point it out to them, get ready, they will attack you viciously.

Its because they subconsciously know that they are weak. The scary and also intriguing thing about these FRAGILE belief systems is that they are based on a whole chain of false assumptions that are VERY high maintenance.

The right would be COOKED if it was not for their MASSIVE echo chamber, which depends on a very large number of right wing operatives who go out and maintain the web of lies by any means possible. They attack people who point out its weaknesses and one of the MOST important criteria for membership in their 'club' as it were is a willingness to lie to cover up the truth whenever it rears its nasty little head.

By the way, if you think this thought process is kind of interesting, there is a lot of stuff on cults that shows how INCREDIBLY CATASTROPHIC the aftermath is when these belief systems collapse.

Look at Hitler, and nazism, for example, A more destructive cult has arguably never existed.

If Hitler had, instead of maintained the correctness of his core principles to te bitter end, had been more pragmatic, he might have been more successful. Instead, he went to a firey end in the Battle of Berlin.

Cults always try to maintain this 'information blockade' - its one of their identifying characteristics.

If you want to see the most extreme examples of this kind of mindset, look at North Korea and how incredibly elaborate the state propaganda machine there is.  

Its like something out of a very bad movie.

I know it's never good to get overconfident, but someone remind me why we're worried about losing to this man?